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On 05/11/2024 01:18, rbowman wrote:
> Being the new hire I saw a lot of the D section. They were ineducable. To
> put it plainly they didn't give a shit and their parents didn't give a
> shit. They were marking time until they turned 16 and could get working
> papers. To further clarify, there was one black kid. The rest were run of
> the mill white trash. I did have to relieve the black kid of his straight
> razor. The white kids knew better than to play with their toys in class.

I have seen similar.
In the context of their lives and their parents lives education is 
completely meaningless.
I had one such schoolmate in my class at primary school. His dad was a 
pig farmer. All he wanted to be was a pig farmer. But he was in his own 
way a nice gentle well behaved kid. He just didn't see the point of 
learning Latin...

The headmaster, an ex WWII  tank commander, took a drill sergeant 
approach, whacking him over the head until he had memorised 'amo, amas, 
amat' correctly.

To an extent it worked.

The problem is that this class of boy responds best to the sort of 
physical punishment we are no longer allowed to indulge in.

Your class Ds belong in the Army.  There they will learn whether they 
like it or not, and some may in time learn self respect.

I have long thought that long term unemployed should be made to join a 
sort of army, where they are separated from their backgrounds, taught 
self discipline and how to strive, and anything else they are capable of 
learning - and would in time become extremely valuable as a civil rapid 
reaction force to deal with the aftermath of floods and hurricanes etc.



-- 
"I am inclined to tell the truth and dislike people who lie consistently.
This makes me unfit for the company of people of a Left persuasion, and 
all women"